bookmark_borderLay Your Head

Lay Your Head Songwriting and Recording
Lay Your Head Songwriting and Recording

Lay Your Head Music Video.mp4

Lay Your Head.mp3

LYRICS
It’s a long ride ’till the end of the road
Sure hoping my patience won’t explode
Saw a sign up ahead… read what it said
“Home is here… or wherever you make your bed”

Lay your head

Their endless loop of confusion
A contusion
End fruitless loops of confusion
Begin enthusiasm

Lay your head

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 4
C Am
F C Am
Em Am

Written and recorded in Blacksburg, Virginia

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Bungalow Bill’s Big Adventure
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTake Care

Recording Session at Virginia Tech Graduation
Recording Session at Virginia Tech Graduation

Take Care Music Video.mp4

Take Care.mp3

LYRICS
Where ever you may go… take care
Whatever you may show… show care

So long to all we fear
The future is now near
Though I love you so
I’ve gotta go

Chorus

Now we hear now is near
Time to serve the atmosphere

Chorus

As long as we’re suckin’ the oxygen
Might as well begin’ servin’

Chorus

What spirit animal are you?

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Am C Am Am+f
Am Em AM EM AM
C +f, Am +f

Written and recorded in Blacksburg, Virginia

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Bungalow Bill’s Big Adventure
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCascades (The Fall of the Waterfall)

Songwriting In The Cascades, BIacksburg, Virginia
Songwriting In The Cascades, BIacksburg, Virginia

LYRICS
The quite chill of an autumn morning
The lichen might consider quite trite
But, the human glare finds it worthwhile to stare
As the fluid cascades amongst the solid
The sunlight cascades over the mountain top
Spilling colors of every hue

Any man must stop to ponder what it is we did
Every man must stop to wonder the wonder if we stop
Look what progress did to the fish
Look what our standard of living has lost
Look what it is we do
Maybe we should be careful for what we wish
Open our eyes. Open our ears. Heed the warning…
Before the waterfalls fall

ABOUT THE SONG
Dm
Am (slide down an octave while strumming)
Am / C

Written on October 20, 2012 at the Cascades and Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Motivated by The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment.

From the album Have Camera. Will Travel
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSuperheroes

Blacksburg, VA
Writing Songs at Virginia Tech

LYRICS
Imagine all the heroes
Getting together
From zero
Hero + hero + hero + hero….
The sum of the parts
Results in the hearts
Of the super heroes

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
We come to know
Superhero

Imagine all the zeros
Adding up to more than nothing
Imagine all the humans
In perfect harmony as they sing

Chorus

Baby birds flapping their wings
Parting with land
As they understand
How to fly
As they understand… why

Chorus

ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 1
Play C Em / F add D / C G
Written while waiting to go to the movie The Avengers at Virginia Tech on May 11, 2012.

bookmark_borderThe Graduate

Writing the Song *Graduate* by Daniel Brouse

LYRICS
The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit
The graduate
Rung by rung
The world’s stage
Your skit

The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit

The ruler of time
Measures your age
The impact you make
Whether you’re a hit

The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit

The ruler of time
Deems you — sage
The more you create
The brighter you lit
The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit

ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 5
Play Em Am7 D
Written at Virginia Tech on graduation day 2012… as I watched people in cap and gown getting down.

bookmark_borderAudience Appreciation Index

It has been quite some time since I’ve posted about the Tunesmith Adventures. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been thoroughly enjoying the audiences. I have been. Though I would like to film more of the adventures, live subjects can be tricky.

Anyway, the audiences have been great. One of my favorite times was in the Spring of 2011. I was sitting at the corner of Ridge and Butler in Ambler, Pennsylvania. A school bus with tinted windows stopped at the light in front of me. I thought the bus was empty and just kept playing my heart away. All of a sudden, a bunch of the windows opened and all these kids started screaming and clapping. Wow! What a thrill.

Nick Does a Flip While I Play Jigging Music
Nick Does a Flip While I Play Jigging Music

Speaking of thrills, there seems to be an outbreak of people inspired to do *human tricks* whenever I start playing my jigging music. The Spring of 2012 has brought many a thrill seeker. Several interesting characters have co-operated in West Chester, Pennsylvania to bring great entertainment to the people. There is a guy that likes to do bike tricks over my head… and another fellow, Nick, who likes to do flips and jumps off the adjacent wall… sometimes it will just be a group of children ranging in ages from 2 to 92 that breakout into a spontaneous dance troupe. You all are more fun than Vaudeville, a sideshow, and a 3-ring circus all rolled into one.

I thank each and every one of you. From those who come up because they feel compelled to offer me money, to those who roll down their windows shouting out with a wave and a smile — THANK YOU!

Sincerely,
Daniel Brouse



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